2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Hannah Templer Walks Us Through Her Cover for Roxy!
1st August 2024
Every week, 2000 AD brings you the galaxy’s greatest artwork and 2000 AD Covers Uncovered takes you behind-the-scenes with the headline artists responsible for our top cover art – but right now we’re headed away from scintillating sci-fi to take you into the realms of romance with ROXY!
On to the second of the three incredible talents gracing the covers of our new contemporary romance anthology that’s packed full of love, romance, and even a little bit of spice – it’s Hannah Templer!
The first ever 2000 AD/Rebellion Kickstarter is named after the classic British romance comic from 1958. Taking all the classic ideas of romance and love in British girls’ comics of the era, this new version of Roxy brings all the style and heartbreak, all the fabulous romance tales but updates it for the modern age with a perfectly love-struck anthology of four very modern tales to inspire a new generation to fall in love with romance comics.
Available in digital, paperback, and hardcover, the new 80-page Roxy is packed full of heartache, forbidden love, supernatural liaisons, and more with some of the finest storytellers of today’s comics…
GLAAD & Eisner-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio and Sterric (De Vloek van Rood) take us back to Regency times for a Bridgerton-esque love story. Then we’re zooming into the far future as Nadia Shammas (Squire, Ms. Marvel) and Jaws Stone (Dames Zine: Magical Knights) spin a tale of love between man and mech. Artist-writer Sarah Gordon (Vicious Creatures) takes us on a spirited walk in the undead woods. And we’ve got the Dracula, Motherf**ker team of Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson reuniting with a brand new supermodel heist thriller. Now that’s enough romance for anyone, surely?
And all this under any one of three incredible covers from Tula Lotay, Hannah Templer, and Marguerite Sauvage.
Hannah’s spectacularly busy but still found the time to send along some of her process for putting together her cover, from the first rough idea for something beautiful…
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From there, she takes it through pencils…
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And then to inks…
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And finally, we have Hannah’s colours – always a feature of her work, getting so much life and drama into things.
First we have the flats and then the real colour work, getting all the tones and subtle details to give us that beautiful final piece that you’ll be loving on the cover of ROXY!
Our thanks to Hannah for sending them along – another simply fabulous cover for a simply fabulous book!
We’ve made Roxy to be the perfect bit of love and romance in your life – bringing back the spirit of classic British romance comics right into the here and now, with something to fall in love with for everyone!
You should all know Hannah’s incredible ‘gays in space’ series Cosmoknights, an epic series that she describes as ‘the story I would like to have read when I was 12 to 15 years old, where queer women and lesbians get to be the heroes of the story.’ This spectacular tale of a ragtag band of space gays, determined to beat a patriarchal system and find their own freedoms in this neo-medieval world, can be found online at Cosmoknights.space but you really need to be buying the print collections of Book One and Book Two right here.